Dr. Barbara Henderson is the Interim Director and professor in the Ed.D. in Educational Leadership Program at San Francisco State University. She is also a professor in the Elementary Education department.

She earned her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1996 and her undergraduate degree from Haverford College.

From 2005-2009, Barbara was the academic advisor for the San Francisco Education Fund, working with a group of P-12 teacher researchers, who were research fellows in the national Teachers' Network Leadership Institute.

Her research expertise is in teacher research, self-study research of teacher education practices, and collaborative oral inquiry processes. She teaches graduate courses in education on child development and research methodology including Qualitative and Mixed Method research.

Together with Daniel Meier, she has co-authored a book on teacher research entitled Learning from Young Children in the Classroom: The Art and Science of Teacher Research. Barbara and Daniel also co-edit an online journal of the NAEYC entitled, Voices of Practitioners.